- First, <strong>select the database you want to retrieve
- sequences from</strong> by clicking the button labeled 'Select database
- retrieval source'. If a database source is already selected, then
- the button's label will change to show the currently selected
- database.
- </p>
- <img src="selectfetchdb.gif" align="left"
- alt="Database selection dialog for fetching sequences (introduced in Jalview 2.8)"
- >
- <p>Since Jalview 2.8, the available databases are shown as a tree
- in a popup dialog box. The databases are ordered alphabetically, and
- if there are many sources for the same type of sequence identifier,
- they will be grouped together in a sub-branch branch labeled with
- the identifier.</p>
- <p>
- Once you have selected the sequence database using the popup dialog
- box, <strong>enter one or more accession ids</strong> (as a
- semi-colon separated list), or press the "Example" button
- to paste the example accession for the currently selected database
- into the retrieval box. Finally, press "OK" to initiate
- the retrieval.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Fetching from The PDB with the EMBL-EBI PDBe Search
- Interface</strong>
- </p>
- <p>
- Since Jalview 2.9, selecting PDB as the sequence database will open
- the <a href="pdbsequencefetcher.html">PDB Sequence Fetcher</a> for
- discovering and retrieving structures.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Only retrieving part of a sequence</strong>
- </p>
- <p>
- DAS sources (indicated by a "<em>(DAS)</em>") allow a
- range to be specified in addition to a sequence ID. To retrieve 50
- residues starting at position 35 in UNIPROT sequence P73137 using
- the UNIPROT DAS server, you would enter "'P73137:35,84'.<br />
- <em>Full support for DAS range queries was introduced in
- Jalview 2.8</em>
+ The databases are shown as a tree, and ordered alphabetically;
+ tooltips are shown if you mouse over some sources, explaining what
+ the database will retrieve. You can select one by using the up/down
+ arrow keys and hitting return, or by double clicking with the mouse.